Precious metals were used as international currency for milennia. How exactly could something that works very well be said to "not work well in practice"?
Martin Luther King Jr. once said “Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.”
In general, I think this lesson has been forgotten totally by the woke. Their embrace of hatred will lead to more hate. Hatred by the majority will not end well for the minority, and with a fresh memory of people running SUVs into crowds of kids I don't think it'll be so easy to bring people back from the edge this time.
In general, I think this lesson has been forgotten totally by the woke. Their embrace of hatred will lead to more hate. Hatred by the majority will not end well for the minority, and with a fresh memory of people running SUVs into crowds of kids I don't think it'll be so easy to bring people back from the edge this time.
Unfortunately, public policy is a non-starter until policymakers get their heads out of their asses and start focusing on what is true rather than what they'd like to be true.
At the moment, the public policymakers are pursuing genocidal policies. They are pushing for magic environmentalism boxes that don't do fuck all instead of actual solutions, while actively working to reduce production of actual useful fuels. They're actively pursuing policies that are reducing the amount of food being grown on the edge of global food shortages. The global food shortages themselves are in part caused by worldwide central control of the economy due to covid.
We're going to use up every ounce of fossil fuels and we won't be ready, but we'll have lots of trinkets we dyed green and covered in "save the environment!" logos.
At the moment, the public policymakers are pursuing genocidal policies. They are pushing for magic environmentalism boxes that don't do fuck all instead of actual solutions, while actively working to reduce production of actual useful fuels. They're actively pursuing policies that are reducing the amount of food being grown on the edge of global food shortages. The global food shortages themselves are in part caused by worldwide central control of the economy due to covid.
We're going to use up every ounce of fossil fuels and we won't be ready, but we'll have lots of trinkets we dyed green and covered in "save the environment!" logos.
Thing is, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. You've got incredibly tight Capital conditions for exactly one thing because investors have stopped worrying about making money and now they seem to be under the impression that they're supposed to swoop in like Superman and save the world.
Imagine the hypocrisy of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund divesting from all fossil fuels. Doesn't that seem a little bit like "fuck you, got mine"?
Imagine the hypocrisy of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund divesting from all fossil fuels. Doesn't that seem a little bit like "fuck you, got mine"?
I get a kick out of the fact that it's called actually foods and it's filled with stuff that isn't actually food.
Now there's an interesting method of denationalization: "We're privatizing this by handing equal shares to every adult. Do with the shares what you will."
My headlines are fake, but this one is not.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation/
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation/
Gas prices may have dropped temporarily, but I've already been hearing stories locally and abroad of gasoline shortages, proving that you can't just drop the price of a limited thing and expect there to be no ramifications.
If you've got some medium to long term storage capacity, you might want to top it up now before prices really start to shoot up.
If you've got some medium to long term storage capacity, you might want to top it up now before prices really start to shoot up.
I worked with that model professionally. It wasn't bad. Not the best Dell ever made, but decent enough.
I feel like for a long time it was popular to hate on Dell, but they've made some really decent computers over the years. Not very standardized, but for what they were they were decent.
I feel like for a long time it was popular to hate on Dell, but they've made some really decent computers over the years. Not very standardized, but for what they were they were decent.
Ironically, I think the left is about due for a major change.
The thing is, people are learning the ideology and rejecting it. I think in the next little while, the institutionalised left is going to be in big trouble because that rejection is going to end up playing out in the form of mass electoral losses, mass losses in the marketplace, and mass loss of interest on the media front.
It'll be a positive thing for the left, because what comes out of it will need to be something that's palatable to the majority, not something that only specifically caters to a tiny minority of elites (those elites being those who happen to fall in the correct locations on the intersectional array).
The thing is, people are learning the ideology and rejecting it. I think in the next little while, the institutionalised left is going to be in big trouble because that rejection is going to end up playing out in the form of mass electoral losses, mass losses in the marketplace, and mass loss of interest on the media front.
It'll be a positive thing for the left, because what comes out of it will need to be something that's palatable to the majority, not something that only specifically caters to a tiny minority of elites (those elites being those who happen to fall in the correct locations on the intersectional array).
Awesome, I didn't realize. Done and done. Thanks for your great ongoing work improving soapbox.
I might just be selfish for wanting to do things the way I presently do things, but any chance of a liberapay? I support projects using it already and I'd be happy to set up a recurring donation that way.
In the graysonian ethic, I write about something on these lines. Essentially, there is a group of people who think the solution to their personal problems is taking over the government. Unless your name is Dr Doom I don't think that this is going to help.
You can blame the youth and specific generations if you think it's going to help, but really it's a universal human trait to want to blame the problems in your life on someone else. Whether it's satan, tiamat, the jews, the whites, or capitalism, the really nice thing about any of those excuses is that suddenly whatever is going on in your life isn't your fault and anybody else who has succeeded where you have not clearly just has the backing of some powerful patron.
I'm not going to be so callous as to claim that everyone is playing with the same deck. In the same book, I point out that opportunity is the father of invention, and that no two people have the same opportunities, and plenty of people have different challenges. But the thing is, no matter what Walk of Life you're looking at, you might not be able to find people who grow old wealthy, but you can probably find people who grow old fulfilled.
We have to remember that we are living in one of the best times in the history of the world to live in, even with all the crazy stuff going on. Even in the midst of a recession, being overweight is one of the biggest hazards to poor people. In the past, under the same circumstances the biggest risk would be starvation and death. Someone pointed out that one of the reasons that cars from the early 1900s were much smaller than the cars today wasn't just because they were cheap to make, but because everybody was suffering from a form of malnutrition, and so they were just smaller people. They were shorter, they were thinner, overall they were just smaller. We can pay this as a vice of our present day, or you can paint it as a virtue of the amazing productivity of our modern age ensuring that people don't need to go to sleep hungry.
If, rather than looking at photos of our ancestors, we actually bothered talking to some of them, we'd realize that while it's easy to say "a man used to be able to support a family on one income", most people would consider the sort of lifestyle that that man provided his family to be some sort of violation of basic human rights. They didn't eat fruit all year round, their houses were much smaller and much worse, they spent most of their time outside because they had absolutely nothing to do inside. Going back a little bit further, entire families would share one bed because the concept of individual bedrooms was the sort of thing reserved for Kings.
So with that being the case, even our poor do live better lives then some of the rich of the past, and so you can't really say that someone's fulfillment or lack thereof is a result of a lack of material goods or services. What I've finally come to realize is that the old saying that the best things in life are free is mostly true. People who have been chasing brand names and MC mansions, people who just need to own a big house in the capital, they don't end up happy. Meanwhile a little low class family in the middle of nowhere can be more than happy.
Now of course that isn't to say that the poor are all happy and the rich are all miserable. That's the sort of thing that an idiot would say. What I'm saying is that there is no amount of wealth that will replace actual fulfillment. On Maslow's hierarchy of needs, there is no amount of food and shelter that will replace relationships and self-actualization.
You can blame the youth and specific generations if you think it's going to help, but really it's a universal human trait to want to blame the problems in your life on someone else. Whether it's satan, tiamat, the jews, the whites, or capitalism, the really nice thing about any of those excuses is that suddenly whatever is going on in your life isn't your fault and anybody else who has succeeded where you have not clearly just has the backing of some powerful patron.
I'm not going to be so callous as to claim that everyone is playing with the same deck. In the same book, I point out that opportunity is the father of invention, and that no two people have the same opportunities, and plenty of people have different challenges. But the thing is, no matter what Walk of Life you're looking at, you might not be able to find people who grow old wealthy, but you can probably find people who grow old fulfilled.
We have to remember that we are living in one of the best times in the history of the world to live in, even with all the crazy stuff going on. Even in the midst of a recession, being overweight is one of the biggest hazards to poor people. In the past, under the same circumstances the biggest risk would be starvation and death. Someone pointed out that one of the reasons that cars from the early 1900s were much smaller than the cars today wasn't just because they were cheap to make, but because everybody was suffering from a form of malnutrition, and so they were just smaller people. They were shorter, they were thinner, overall they were just smaller. We can pay this as a vice of our present day, or you can paint it as a virtue of the amazing productivity of our modern age ensuring that people don't need to go to sleep hungry.
If, rather than looking at photos of our ancestors, we actually bothered talking to some of them, we'd realize that while it's easy to say "a man used to be able to support a family on one income", most people would consider the sort of lifestyle that that man provided his family to be some sort of violation of basic human rights. They didn't eat fruit all year round, their houses were much smaller and much worse, they spent most of their time outside because they had absolutely nothing to do inside. Going back a little bit further, entire families would share one bed because the concept of individual bedrooms was the sort of thing reserved for Kings.
So with that being the case, even our poor do live better lives then some of the rich of the past, and so you can't really say that someone's fulfillment or lack thereof is a result of a lack of material goods or services. What I've finally come to realize is that the old saying that the best things in life are free is mostly true. People who have been chasing brand names and MC mansions, people who just need to own a big house in the capital, they don't end up happy. Meanwhile a little low class family in the middle of nowhere can be more than happy.
Now of course that isn't to say that the poor are all happy and the rich are all miserable. That's the sort of thing that an idiot would say. What I'm saying is that there is no amount of wealth that will replace actual fulfillment. On Maslow's hierarchy of needs, there is no amount of food and shelter that will replace relationships and self-actualization.
So I'm on Amazon looking for books, and they have a button to show Canadian authors. I click on it and it brings me directly to Michelle Obama's biography.
Sod off Amazon.
Sod off Amazon.
Sure is.
Socialism is a dictatorship by definition. It's an intermediate step between capitalism and communism under marxist theory. That's why 'real communism has never been tried', because getting to a stateless, classless society from a dictatorship is like getting a perfect, lean, muscular body by eating potato chips and watching TV all day.
Socialism is a dictatorship by definition. It's an intermediate step between capitalism and communism under marxist theory. That's why 'real communism has never been tried', because getting to a stateless, classless society from a dictatorship is like getting a perfect, lean, muscular body by eating potato chips and watching TV all day.
It's a great video the other day that pointed out that when Mussolini said "fascism can be better called corporatism", the corporation that he referred to was not what we considered to be a corporation, but an incorporation between nationalized industry and labor unions.
In other words, fascism is just another form of socialism.
In other words, fascism is just another form of socialism.
Municipal water treatment is a pretty big "they" to collectively keep a secret like that.